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  • The Dems did some delegate fuckery where all candidates endorsed Biden because Bernie Trump had to be stopped at all cost, and their delegates went to Biden even if he hadn’t been voted for. Kamala contributed all of her 0 delegates and got VP for being a cop the first to drop out iirc.




  • From the article you linked.

    The CIA, in the spring of 1977 and into 1978, told the Carter administration that Indonesia was literally running out of weapons, running out of bullets and bombs, because of the intensity of its bombardment of East Timor, and that the Suharto regime was requesting a doubling of military assistance so it could more effectively prosecute that war. And in 1978, the Carter administration actually increased military sales to Indonesia, including the provision of ground attack fighters, such as OV-10 Broncos, A-4 and F-5 ground attack fighters, which the administration knew would be used to bomb and attack the defenseless civilian population of East Timor.

    What’s more, let’s pretend to be the most gullible person in the world, totally unaware of how the US has historically operated, and take Carter at his word. Was anyone prosecuted for lying to the president? Was anyone court martialed, did anyone in the CIA, State Department, or Department of Defense face any sort of legal repercussions? No?

    Then I guess the US must have been pretty satisfied with the outcome, to not make any provisions to ensure it wouldn’t happen again or even punish those who led to it. And of course they were, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman must have made a literal killing.



  • It has jack shit to do with the point, you’re just using bad faith questions to deflect. You’re not original or sneaky.

    Do you think genocide was acceptable, is my question, because you seem to be awfully concerned about the particulars, like you’re about to say “oh, well, where’s the solutions? Everyone wants to stop a genocide but nobody wants to provide alternatives”.





  • Not three months ago Gaza had a death toll well past fifty thousand by the most conservative estimates, not to mention the huge amounts of women and children maimed, malnourished and the wholesale destruction of the entire strip’s infrastructure.

    Did the republicans do that or did y’all deny reality so much in the pursuit of tHe mOsT iMpOrTanT ElEctiOn oF oUr LiFeTimE that you don’t know what fucking color the sky is unless you ask the DNC first.

    The republicans are not diametrically opposed to the democrats, they’re just the same shit but more brash, and (with Trump at the helm) too fucking incompetent to not say the quiet part out loud, maybe because they know their base is so rabid on American fascism that dogwhistles aren’t enough anymore, they need a fucking trumpet.


  • Grapho@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlSeemed like it belonged here
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    11 days ago

    Delusion is seeing Russia achieving their war goals (not the stupid fever dreams libs conjured up, but the stated war goals that serious analysts acknowledge), Ukraine near a complete state of collapse, their western sponsor squeezing them for ransom like we always said would happen, while Russia’s economy became the 4th largest in the world in terms of GDP adjusted for PPP during the course of the war, and then declare: “no, you see! This is a defeat in every way that counts”.

    Terminally childish.










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    2 months ago

    The post is talking about the DPRK and China.

    instead, we should trust… The other ogliarchic and blatantly fascist empires?

    Plural.

    You’re not being sneaky by refusing to state a clear argument and hiding behind liberal platitudes. There is no empire other than the US, and opposition to it is always framed as irredeemable evil and y’all eat it up.

    Make an argument, cite your sources, or stop wasting everyone’s time with deflection.


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    2 months ago

    Then how did you come by that particular conclusion? Because if it’s not just out and out racism, surely you can link it to verify it’s not just a State Department proxy going “Anonymous sources confirm ALL minorities in China being tortured right the fuck now”


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    2 months ago

    You can call it “nuance” all you want, it doesn’t change that such a critical stance is always rooted in state department propaganda.

    Western “leftists” trust imperialists more than foreign PoC, which surprises nobody.